I recently discovered that my ggg/grandmother FRANCES
BROWN (d. 1807 in Greensville County) had a brother
named BURWELL BROWN, from which I suspect I have a
BURWELL ancestor. Does anyone know of one or more good
genealogies of the BURWELL family? My BROWN family is
covered -- at least in part -- in one of Boddie's
little books.

F.Y.I. FRANCES BROWN m. MATTHEW PETERSON MAYES
(1794-1878) who moved to Sumter County, South Carolina
ca. 1819, where he founded the (then) major cotton
depot town of Mayesville.

Joe Chandler Jr.
Alexandria




--- Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> For the chapter about Rebecca Burwell in the book I
> am writing about
> Jefferson and women, I’ve identified Jefferson’s
> circle of friends in
> Williamsburg from his correspondence. Of the 32
> young men and women
> mentioned in these Jefferson-John Page-William
> Fleming letters (all in
> volume 1 of Boyd’s Papers) I’ve identified 28 with
> reasonable certainty –
> most of them were born between 1739 and 1748. Other
> remaining four are
> difficult to pin down not because they were obscure
> but because their
> extended families offer too many candidates for
> confidence – e.g. “Bob
> Carter” for a large family, many-branched family in
> which Robert was a
> favorite given name. And of course Jefferson, Page
> and
>
>     Two matters of curiosity arise from the
> information I’ve been examining:
>
>
> First, in regard to the brief mentions of “Ned
> Carter” “Bob Carter”
> “William Bland” and “P. Stith” in this
> correspondence, I’d be grateful for
> informed conjecture about the specific identities of
> these 20-somethings
> in Jefferson, Page and Fleming’s circle of friends
> around W&M in the early
> 1760s. Unless a response has more general interest
> to others, off-list to
> [log in to unmask] is fine.
>
> Second, a third of the young men and women in this
> circle are from
> Gloucester County, and John Page of Rosewell
> obviously was a very close
> friend at this time. As the crow flies, Rosewell is
> 8 miles from the Wren
> Building – 6 miles to the south bank of the York and
> then 2 miles across
> the river.
>       I’m curious transportation options in the
> 1760s: If Page and
> Jefferson “went home” for a weekend, holiday, party,
> or whatever,
> presumably they crossed the York by private boat or
> public ferry.
> Aside from tracking down statutory provisions for
> ferries in
> Hening’s statutes (which I have not done), I wonder
> what scholarship
> might be out there about the ownership and use of
> small boats, or
> the operation of ferries, and such in Virginia ca
> 1760s. (I've seen
> carriages [and of course horses] listed in
> inventories but never
> noticed boats - though of course I was never looking
> for them.)
> Again, unless a response has more general interest
> to others,
> off-list to [log in to unmask] is fine.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President
> Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial
> 1250 Red Hill Road
> Brookneal, Virginia 24528
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